Self skirt marker and pin tray



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H. A. W lLHlTE SELF SKIRT MARKER AND PIN TRAY Filed March 5v, 1927 Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

Unirse .STATES HARRIET A. WILHTE, OF IDIANAEOLIS, INDIAA.

SELF SKIRT MARKER AND PIN 'lR-AY.

Application led March 5, 1927.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device bythe aid of which any woman can mark her own dress skirt around its entire circumference at eX- actly the same distance above the floor at all points thereby establishing a base line `from which she can lengthen or shorten the shirt to suit her taste and changes in style and get it to hang even all around.

Another object is to provide a marker which will use commerical chalk which commonly comes in long tapering sticks, and which is much softer that tailors chalk and therefore better because it will mark the skirt with a pressure so light that the skirt will not be pushed away to produce an error in the height of the mark made by the crayon.

A still further object is to provide a place in the device in which to keep chalk .sticks when they are not in use, and also to provide a depression on top of it to be used as a tray for pins which are a necessity with seamstresses and dressmakers.

I accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in the accompanying` drawing, in which- C Fig. 1, is a perspective view of my invention in use.

F ig. 2, is a view in side elevation, and

Fig. 3, a front end elevation.

Figs. a and are views of the two parts of my device separated and looking at their inner sides.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawing.

My invention comprises a base plateG, the bottom of which is covered with felt or other material 5 to increase the friction between the base and the top of a table or other support on which it is placedand also to prevent marring the supporting surface. This base member cooperates with a cap member 7 which rests upon the base and with it forms a. holder for a stick of marking chalk 8. lJne half a of a channel-seat for he chalk is formed in the base 6 and a ma ing half Z) is formed in the cap member 7. The two channels taper toward the ends of these respective members 6 and 7 to conform with the usual taper of the chalk stick and to insure a close fit against the chalk by moving the stick so it will contact the channel walls of the device when assembled with an end of the stick of chalk projecting asuit- Serial No. 173,148.

able distance beyond the end of the holder, as shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3.

To insure the proper assembly of the tw members 6 and 7 I provide registering devices, here shown as a pair of dowel pins l0, l0, seatedv in cap 7 andv entering holes ll, l1, in the base 6. This may be other projections from one member entering indentations in the other.

Light coloredv chalk sticks for marking dark skirts and dark sticks for marking light ones are desirable and to have them conveniently at hand l provide a pair of suitable holders i2, l2, in which the sticks may be kept ready for use. As shown in Figs. 4L and 5, these holders comprise half cylindrical cavities in each member 6 and 7 that register when the members are assembled.

The top surface of the cap member 7 is dished as shown at 13, to form a tray for pins.`

The members 6 and 7 are preferably of cast iron and the cap member 7 is of suitable weightto hold a stick of chalk without crushing or breaking it. The projecting end of the chalk is sharpened as shown, to make a thin mark, land is preferable to the hard tailors chalk because the former readily marks a skirt without pressing hard against it as is required with tailors chalk, which is a flat piece of talc.

vAs illustrated in Fig. l, the holder containing a stick of chalk, is placed on a table or other convenient article of furniture which will support the holder above the bottom of a skirt worn by the person who is to do the self marking. That person then stands so her skirt touches the sharpened end of the chalk, and turns around maintaining the` skirt in such constant contact with the chalk that a continuous mark is made around the skirt. The mark forms a base line to measure from in letting out or taking up the skirt-length, and by measuring from this base-line the bottom of the skirt may be kept absolutely even all around.

as the chalk stick is worn off by use it can be moved outwardly of the holder by trimming down lthe swell in the stick with a knife.

It is obvious that the size, shape and minor details of my device may be changed without departing from the spirit of this invention and I therefore do not desire to be limited to the precise form shown and described here any more than is required by the following claims; and having .thus fully described .my imvcntion what I .cla-im as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a device for marking skirts, a base member, and a cap member supported on the bese member7 the meeting feces of the cap end base members each having an in- Wardly expanding channel extending from ends of the members to hold a correspondintgly .shaped stick of marking challn und dowel pins in one of the members entering holes inthe other member adapted to match the setfeial channels thns forming .chalk holders.

2. 'In s vdevice for marking skirts, a base member covered with friction cloth on its bottom, a cap member recessed on its top face and removably supported on the base, the bottom fece of the csp member having a pair of channels and the top face of the base member having s peil of channels and the csp and buse members further having an inwardly expanding channel between the `pit-irpef channels extending' from ends of the members to hold s correspondingli,7 shaped stick `of marking chalk, ,and dovve pins in one of the members lentering holes in the other member adopted to ins-tch the vzuions Channels thus 'forming chalk holders.

in testimony whereof l affix my signature.

HARRIET A. WlLHlTE. 

